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GRE Essay Topic 911 - The following appeared as an editorial in the local newspaper of Dalton. "When the neighboring town of Williamsville adopted a curfew four months ago that made it illegal for persons under the age of 18 to loiter or idle in public places after 10 p.m., youth crime in Williamsville dropped by 27 percent during curfew hours. In Williamsville's town square, the area where its citizens were once most outraged at the high crime rate, not a single crime has been reported since the curfew was introduced. Therefore, to help reduce its own rising crime rate, the town of Dalton should adopt the same kind of curfew. A curfew that keeps young people at home late at night will surely control juvenile delinquency and protect minors from becoming victims of crime. " Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument.

The argument makes a number of unwarranted assumption regarding the curfew that declined the youth crime percent during the curfew hours. Taken as a whole, this unstated assumptions render the argu...
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The argument states that the youth crime rate has been dropped to a large extent that is 27 percent by applying a curfew which restricts teenagers from roaming around after 10 p.m. In addition to t...
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This article claims that Dalton should adopt a curfew which has been using in Williamsville so as to reduce youth crime ration and protect juvenile from unwanted situations. However, this claim rel...
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In the conclusion,the only way to reduce crime is through curfew which at first glance seems to be obvious conclusion.Williamsville adopted a curfew for four month in which person under the age of ...
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The argument mentioned above asserts that by adopting the curfew for persons under the age of 18, the town of Dalton can decrease its crime rate significantly as their neighbouring city Williamsvi...
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In the argument ,the author claims that Dalton should adopt the same kind of curfew that keeps young people at home late at night in order to reduce crime rate .To support the conclusion, the autho...
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The author first talks about the neighbouring town of Dalton that is williamsville and describes the laws adopted in the city and how the crime rate is hiked.It states that just because curfew is i...
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The writer believes that the same treatment of Williamsville that adopted a curfew for minors will take effect on Dalton in supressing juvenile delinquency. Namely, the adaptation of a curfew in t...
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